I use the solution to deploy .NET applications to the cloud. I deploy Web APIs and console applications.
Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed
A scalable and affordable solution that is easy to configure and provides helpful features
Pros and Cons
- "Cloud Run is pretty helpful."
- "Google is slower to support .NET."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Cloud Run is pretty helpful. Pub/Sub is also helpful.
What needs improvement?
The product must provide support for .NET. Microsoft has support for .NET because .NET is a Microsoft product. We ran into an issue when we were waiting for Google to support .NET 6. Google is slower to support .NET. It must cater more to .NET developers.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one year.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten. We rarely had issues. We run our applications on Cloud Run. We had a feature in our software where we had to generate an Excel report, and it limited us to 32 megabytes. We had to work around it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten. Probably 100 users are using the solution in our organization.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were using Azure before.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is fairly easy. We have a tool called Jenkins to deploy the product. It only takes a few minutes.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is cheaper than Azure.
What other advice do I have?
Google Cloud came late to the game, so it's not used as much as AWS. We can give it a try because it's easy. It’s easy to configure. It gives us another option. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
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Data Engineer at Astra Welab Digital Arta
Highly efficient tools for personal storage and programming
Pros and Cons
- "It's easy to deploy Google Cloud."
- "The performance after long-term use shows the storage is too full, and I cannot add more storage without paying for it."
What is our primary use case?
For personal storage, Google Workspace, Google portal, Google video, Google file, and Google Cloud Shell for programming language.
What is most valuable?
The services that are the most helpful include Google Portal, Google Video, Google File, and Google Cloud Shell.
What needs improvement?
The performance after long-term use shows the storage is too full, and I cannot add more storage without paying for it. I want to migrate to another solution if I need to pay for additional storage. It would also be enjoyable if there is no HBase in Google Workspace.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Google Cloud for some time and am still using it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The problem with scaling is that if I add space to Google Cloud, I must pay for it, so I want to migrate to another solution.
How was the initial setup?
It's easy to deploy Google Cloud. The deployment is compatible and efficient.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
If I add up space in Google Cloud, I must pay for it. The pricing of Google Cloud is considered cheap.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I have used Alibaba Cloud and found it more complex compared to Google Cloud, which is more practical.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend Google Cloud to other people.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Google
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Senior Solutions Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
A robust, storage and document sharing solution that is easy to use and access
Pros and Cons
- "It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage."
- "There are issues with stability."
What is our primary use case?
The primary use case of this solution is for storage and document sharing.
For example, if I have a customer and they want to share a document, I can access it through Google.
What is most valuable?
Ubiquiti is what is most valuable. They have basically mimicked Microsoft, giving you the equivalent of Office 365 type of services that are available.
It's robust, and it has a wide reach in terms of office applications including storage.
It's easy to access in a public cloud environment.
What needs improvement?
Every once in a while I have trouble accessing it, but I don't know if that's a function of the Cloud, the way the Cloud is set up, or it's just something on my browser.
Stability could be improved in terms of the Cloud in general administration. It's frustrating when companies have to deal with Cloud Administration.
Change configuration management is an issue. I can envision customer companies that are Cloud-enabled where their biggest problem is having to keep up with the changes and managing it.
The API is constantly evolving. IP addresses are constantly changing and it's hard to keep up with all of those changes.
Typically it is being administered through IT organizations, although they have no visibility.
If you engage in a security solution through a cloud provider, you have no view, it's all faith, trust, and hope.
How do you reconcile the two, to provide the visibility, do it seamlessly, and make it easy to use?
If they could include a popup section where all of the new updates are. That would be helpful. I don't have the experience or intelligence to know what it is that they are showing, or where I can get that I might need, which would make a feature like this important.
It would like it if upon starting the browser, it tells you that it is out of date and asks if you would like to update. That would lead customers to take the optimal path as opposed to having to figure it out themselves.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
There are issues with stability. There may be capacity issues at the time but it's hard to guess what the root cause is. There is no visibility. You don't have the visibility unless you really know upfront what your problem is. Otherwise, you are left hanging.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It's scalable, but I don't plan to increase my usage. Personally, I avoid a public cloud offering system from a security perspective unless it's something a customer requires to access documents.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Prior to the public cloud, I used another solution more like a public hosting-type of service. It didn't give you the scale and the means of payment that you have with the Cloud. As an example, look at Lotus Notes, 1980 technology. There is no comparison, Google is far superior. People see the ease, simplicity, and again the Ubiquiti of the service attached to it.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is simple. You go in there and you register. It starts with your email address and then you are done.
What other advice do I have?
We provide private networks, what we call VPNs. It is the older, traditional VPN type service for our customers, which gives them security and performance metrics that you can't get from the internet.
We have a gen engine that has that interface into the cloud providers including Google.
We don't by services from Google, we are not even doing infrastructures, or platform as a service or software as a service.
We are not using this solution in my organization. We have our own internal storage for security reasons, and predominantly, we use it in-house. We call it orange, it's flex storage. It's our intranet.
We either use in-house or have exclusive arrangements with companies.
The concept of the cloud is great, you have the scale, you have the financial model, metered pay as you go, those are great, but what's worse is that it's a black box.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Google
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Engineering manager at IDFC Bank
A cost-effective and user-friendly product that is also stable
Pros and Cons
- "Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use."
- "The product should be more cost-effective."
What is most valuable?
Google Cloud is perceived as a cost-effective and user-friendly option, especially compared to AWS. The current affordability and ease of use make it suitable for medium-sized companies. While the complexity may increase in the future, for now, Google Cloud is considered easy to use.
What needs improvement?
The product should be more cost-effective.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the product for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
My company has more than 1000 users.
How was the initial setup?
The tool's deployment is not complex.
What about the implementation team?
Google Cloud's deployment can be done in-house.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the overall product an eight out of ten. Various factors come into play when considering the adoption of Google Cloud. Cost is a significant consideration, but it's not the sole factor. The availability of skilled developers in the market, technology support, scalability for future growth, and the range of products offered are also crucial. Additionally, the ease of finding Google Cloud-certified developers and the level of support from the company or vendor contribute to the decision-making process.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Chief Information Security Officer at a government with 10,001+ employees
Cloud infrastructure solution that reduces capital expenditure and offers stability and scalability
Pros and Cons
- "It eliminates capital expenditures and subsequent MNO that we would use to spend on on-prem architectures. That money is funneled towards security and connectivity provisioning."
- "An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring."
How has it helped my organization?
The value for us is the infrastructure as we don't have to host or worry about upgrades. It eliminates capital expenditures and subsequent MNO that we would use to spend on on-prem architectures. That money is funneled towards security and connectivity provisioning. This is a better way of spending money and trying to keep up with the cloud-forward strategy that we have in Oregon.
What needs improvement?
An area of improvement would be in the of managing accounts in terms of what we are using for memory, availability, and monitoring. We want to monitor our SaaS deployment within Google to give our SOC a good idea of what's going on.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for a couple of years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This is a scalable solution.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
This solution is worth the money we are paying. I would rate the pricing a three out of five.
What other advice do I have?
From a maintenance perspective, we have cloud architects who are working on what data can go where and what infrastructure we require from the cloud service providers. This is a team of ten.
I would advise others considering this solution to always plan and have a good blocking service before moving anything to the cloud. It is important to complete an evaluation of sing the solution long term and to take cost provisioning, availability of services, cyber security, credibility and compliance into consideration.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
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Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Hosts and allows us to access all of our necessary applications
Pros and Cons
- "The performance is a valuable feature."
- "The price of the license could be cheaper."
What is our primary use case?
We're using this solution to host all of our applications. Currently, we're in the process of migrating all the SAP servers to GCP.
There are about 2,000 people using this solution in our organization.
What is most valuable?
The performance is a valuable feature.
What needs improvement?
The price of the license could be cheaper.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for a few months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability is good.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay for a monthly license.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.
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Executive Director at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Light, feature-rich, stable and scalable, but it could be more user-friendly
Pros and Cons
- "It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface."
- "I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement."
What is our primary use case?
We use Google Suite of products for enterprise and we build our technology products for warehouse management systems, and transportation management systems.
We use Google Cloud for our enterprise. It is used for pretty much everything from emails to storage and to communicate everything.
What is most valuable?
Google Cloud is very light.
It is easy to use and has a very familiar interface.
I have used Microsoft and I have used Google. I feel equally comfortable with both, but Google is lighter and it's easy to work with on your mobile devices.
Google has a lot of features that are really good. I am happy with the features that Google offers.
What needs improvement?
As far as internal communications, Microsoft is much better because of the way it is structured. I feel more comfortable with Microsoft.
I feel that the Google product is incomplete with regard to internal communications. It is an area that needs some improvement.
The user experience could be better. Microsoft user experience is better.
The compatibility of different devices could be better because it looks different on different devices, It's not the same.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been with the company for seven or eight months and it has been used for a long time before that. They have been using it from the start.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I am satisfied with the stability of Google Cloud.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Google Cloud is very scalable. Many companies use Google Cloud because of its scalability.
We have more than 30,000 users in our organization who are using Google Cloud.
How are customer service and technical support?
I have not had any issues with the technical support in the eight months I have been using Google Cloud.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. It's quite straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not familiar with the pricing, but I would guess that it is probably cheaper than Microsoft Suite. There are a lot of startups that use Google Cloud.
What other advice do I have?
We are a Google house, and we don't use any of the Microsoft products.
Google is fantastic and I think that people should go for it. I would recommend using Google Cloud.
I would rate Google Cloud a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
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IT specialist at CUADRO OCHO INC
Offers good speed, security, and performance to users
Pros and Cons
- "The speed, security, and performance of Google Cloud are excellent."
- "As a new product, the product's initial setup phase is a little bit difficult."
What is our primary use case?
So far, I like all the features that I use with Google Cloud. I like it very much compared to the previous tool that we had.
What is most valuable?
The speed, security, and performance of Google Cloud are excellent.
What needs improvement?
Actually, our company doesn't venture out much to use all of the products and features covered under Google Cloud because we do have our own customizations when it comes to the setups for the company. We are trying to maximize our resources, the cost, and the assets, and we want to control it on our own.
The product's initial setup phase is a little bit difficult, so it is an area where improvements are required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have three months of experience with Google Cloud. My role in the company is as a researcher and a developer. I am an end-user of the tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
We are working with approximately 300 users of the tool in our company.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support was average. I rate the technical support a six out of ten.
The technical support for Google's platforms are embedded under products, so we are meant to go for self-learning. My company does not have experience with human intervention when it comes to Google. Only self-learning is needed for the products.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Right now, we have Google Cloud's Compute Engine and SQL Server, but we have not used the tools yet because we are diverting into self-hosting.
Previously, I worked with Microsoft products for my previous employer. All Microsoft products, including Office, servers, databases, and SQL Server.
How was the initial setup?
As a new product for us, the product's initial setup phase is a little bit difficult.
The product's deployment phase took place over a month. I then deployed the virtual machine, VPC, the storage, and SQL Server. We ran it for a couple of days, and then we saw the billing and the cost. The cost is based on the products you used, CPUs, Storage, Memory, API access and bandwidth. We saw that the tool was great but very costly for us, and so we did not continue.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as an eight.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Google
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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